Zhao Kuangyin gave the order, and Jing Si, who was already eager to try in the front army, held the sword in his hand, clamped the horse's belly with his legs, shouted "kill", and rushed the horse out like a meteor chasing the moon. Tens of thousands of cavalry behind him were also roaring and galloping. out.
Da da da! ! !
The war horses galloped with hoofs raised, and the sound of horse trampling was shocking. The two cavalry armies trampled into dust. The war horses sprinted at high speed and collided with each other in an instant.
Bang bang bang! ! !
Tens of thousands of cavalry from the Tang and Song armies collided with each other, making a deafening noise. The cavalry in the front row of both armies were thrown into the sky by the powerful impact. Before they even landed, they were stabbed to the core by the long spears in the hands of the cavalry in the rear row.
"Kill!"
Amidst the loud shouts of killing, tens of thousands of cavalrymen intertwined together, their long spears waving like the wind, and their blood flowing like rain. The neighing of war horses, the clash of weapons, the shrill screams of soldiers, all kinds of sounds were intertwined together, continuous and harsh.
"Anyone who stands in my way will die!"
General Jing Si of the Song Army galloped on his horse, slashing horizontally and vertically with the sword in his hand. When the blade passed by, blood spattered everywhere, which frightened the Tang Army's cavalry and fled in all directions as if they were avoiding the god of plague.
"Hahaha, you cowards, who dares to come and fight me?"
Seeing that the Tang army's cavalry were afraid of their own strength, they all avoided it. Jing Si couldn't help but laugh proudly, licked his dry lips, and continued to ride his horse into the crowd, slashing everywhere.
When Li Siyuan saw this, he was furious. He waved the long sword in his hand towards Jing Si who was killing his soldiers wantonly, "Thieves general, don't be so rampant. I, Li Siyuan, come to take your head!"
"Ding dong, the system has detected that Li Siyuan has entered the brave state. His force is +5, his base force is 98, and his current force has increased to 103."
"Ding dong, Li Siyuan's four-dimensional ability has been detected. Commander is 94, force is 98, intelligence is 86, and politics is 89."
When Jing Si saw Li Siyuan coming to kill him, a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, he shouted loudly, his body whizzed out like an arrow from the string, and the sword in his hand slashed away with the force of the mountain roar and tsunami.
"Ding dong, it has been detected that Jing Si has entered a state of bravery. The force is +7. The base force is 100. The current force has increased to 107."
Yang Gao, who was in the morning meeting, suddenly heard the system prompt, smiled slightly, and said secretly in his heart: "It seems that Zhao Kuangyin sent his troops south to fight with Li Tang. Good fight. The better you fight, the happier I will be!" "
clang!
There was a loud noise, and the horse under Li Siyuan's crotch let out a cry of "Xi Yu Yu" and staggered back two steps. Li Si Yuan also felt a numbness in the tiger's mouth, and couldn't help but secretly said in surprise: "Hiss! This Song General So much strength!”
"Eat me with a knife!"
Jing Si forced Li Siyuan back with one move, roared angrily, and swung his second sword without giving Li Siyuan a chance to react.
Li Siyuan's jaw was still hurting, so he dared not take Jing Si's second blow. He sideways dodged the blow and stabbed Jing Si in the chest with his backhand.
Jing Si snorted disdainfully, swung the sword in his hand and quickly knocked away Li Siyuan's horse.
The two generals each waved their weapons and fought together. Jing Si was a strong martial artist and wielded a broadsword with great force, and his moves were inseparable from Li Siyuan's vital points.
But Li Siyuan was no ordinary person. The first time he collided with Jing Si, he was shaken to the point of paralysis. Knowing that Jing Si's strength was far greater than his own, he waved his horse and kept fighting outside, never colliding with Jing Si head-on. Although they are slightly at a disadvantage, they have not yet reached the point of defeat.
Although Jing Si had the upper hand against Li Siyuan, the cavalry led by him were defeated by the Tang army's cavalry and suffered heavy losses. Of course, this is reasonable. As Li Keyong said, the Song army was defeated in three battles and its morale was low. It was impossible for Zhao Kuangyin to change instantly.
Zhao Kuangyin also saw the disadvantage of the Song army's cavalry in a head-on battle, and quickly sent reinforcements to Jing Si, "Cao Bin and Chen Yucheng listen to the order, you two will each lead 5,000 light cavalry to cut in from both sides, disrupt the Tang army's formation, and assist Jing Si." Heir."
"I will obey your orders!"
The two generals each clasped their fists to receive their orders, and immediately led five thousand light cavalry out of the formation, outflanking Li Siyuan from both sides, trying to harass Li Siyuan's troops from the flanks and support Jing Si.
Li Keyong saw Zhao Kuangyin's intention at a glance, and without blinking an eyelid, he ordered: "Send the order, the crossbow troops on the left and right wings will come out, and the bows and arrows will harass the Song Army's cavalry."
Three thousand archers rushed out from each wing of the Tang Army, and fired fiercely at the Song Army cavalry that was galloping in the distance. Although Zhao Kuangyin has a strong commanding ability, he started out as a bandit after all. The equipment of his soldiers and horses are completely incomparable with that of the Tang army. Facing the black rain of arrows, the Song army cavalry could only use their weapons to block it. There is no other way.
However, in the face of such a dense rain of arrows, it was impossible for all the Song Army cavalry to be strong generals with strong martial arts skills. From time to time, some cavalrymen were shot to the ground by sharp arrows, and screams continued.
The Tang Army's crossbowmen fired five or six waves of arrows one after another, knocking off the Song Army's cavalry who wanted to outflank Li Siyuan from both sides, causing the formation to fall into disarray.
Upon seeing this, Li Keyong gave another order: "Instruct the archers to stop shooting and the swordsmen and axemen to come out."
At the command, two thousand sword and axemen suddenly rushed out from both sides of the Tang army. They were wearing heavy armor and holding big axes. They rushed quickly to the line of Song army's light cavalry. The big axes in their hands were pointed at the crotches of the cavalry and the horses. The horse's legs were chopped randomly.
The cavalryman whose horse's leg was cut off suddenly lost his support and fell forward, dazed from the fall. Before he could react while lying on the ground, he was chopped to pieces with several sharp axes.
"Quick, kill them, quick!"
A roar suddenly broke out among the Song Army cavalry, and almost all the cavalry stabbed down with their long spears angrily. But these axemen were carefully selected from tens of thousands of troops and were very agile in their actions. Often a cavalryman's long spear would be stabbed in the air, and the next moment his horse's legs would be cut off, he would fall to the ground and be hacked to death with an axe.
In just a quarter of an hour, the Song army's cavalry lost more than 3,000 cavalry, while the Tang army's sword and axemen lost only six to seven hundred people. The ground was full of war horses with their front hooves cut off, rolling around on the ground and neighing in pain. The whole land was stained with blood.
"Retreat, retreat quickly!"
The injured and fallen horses not only disrupted the Song Army's cavalry formation, but also blocked the way forward. Cao Bin and Chen Yucheng saw that there was nothing they could do, and that if they continued to fight, their entire army would be wiped out. They immediately waved their spears and led the remaining cavalry back.
When Zhao Kuangyin saw Cao Bin and Chen Yucheng returning from a disastrous defeat, and saw Jing Si's troops who were fighting head-on also beginning to retreat, he felt an unknown fire in his heart. He turned around and shouted: "Send the order to beat the drums, and the whole army will attack!"
Boom, boom, boom! ! !
Fierce drum beats rang loudly. Zhao Kuangyin charged first with his unique weapon Panlong Stick. Behind him, more than 60,000 troops held weapons and shouted loudly as they charged forward.
Li Keyong couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw Zhao Kuangyin going into battle in person, and immediately ordered: "Send the whole army to attack and capture Zhao Kuangyin alive!"
